Andrew Sayers wrote: > For example, the handling of NUL characters is worse > than newlines Filenames are C strings. Filenames with NUL bytes simply do not exist, at least as long as one is using the ANSI C or POSIX interfaces for file access. So as far as I can tell the story really is only about newlines. (If svn-fe tried to push history back to Subversion, life would presumably be more complicated.) Hoping that clarifies a little, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html